Episode Summary

Fed up by the way his grandmother dresses him, 8th grade Meechie joins the BDs, a Chicago-area gang, to buy new clothes.

Episode Notes

Fed up by the way his grandmother dresses him, 8th grade Meechie joins the BDs, a Chicago-area gang, to buy new clothes.

This story was coached by Stephany Lowe and mixed and mastered by Miles Dotson.

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